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Jun.26.2010
My morning starts with Mozart. I put four sonatas interpreted by Matsuko Uchida in my player. The sun is not up yet, it is 4 am. Parkinson alters the natural rhythm of sleep, and I frequently wake up in the middle of the night. I like it, for it is quiet. I can hear myself think, and Mozart. His...
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Aug.12.2009
“The most miserable and tragic thing about poverty is not the lack of bread or roof, but the feeling of being no one.”
That quote was from Jose Antonio Abreu, a musician and composer and the founder of El Sistema, a music education program that has created over 150 youth orchestras in Venezuela and...
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